Can you guess Paper Mill's upcoming season? Mar 14
2019, 02:22:19 PM
At first glance I saw the group of all those people in a walk/race with Susan Boyle and thought of the tv show Amazing Race.
And if you say that slowly, it could be the hit gospel musical, “Amazing Grace”
ACL2006 said: "Let's what the Spring shows bring in, but will be pulling for SJB."
Good point, I guess my question is, for those of you on the boards that have seen tryouts for tootsie, hadestown, be more chill, and beetlejuice, are there leading actress roles?
Looking at the numbers, we could easily predict the nominees.
Best Lead Actress in a Musical 2019 Tony Race Dec 5
2018, 09:53:16 AM
This was brought up in the Cher show review thread, what is the big competition for best lead actress in a musical this year?
Size of role wise, it looks like the meatiest role is Cher. OHara would probably be nominated for kiss me Kate.
If Beth level is considered leading, I could see her getting nominated, but I don’t know if that role could rival Cher.
What are the other leading actress in a musical roles this year? Anything big in tootsie or hadestown? I don’t see
“And for those wondering, they sold out of everything he signed within 30 minutes. I walked overthere maybe 40 minutes after his tweet, and they said everything was sold out. I hope he goes again because it clearly made an impact."
How selfish of him. Why did he only sign everything with his name on it? Why stop there? Have him sign every item in the store. We all know in his moment that would bring the value up 1000%.
”Where’d you get that LMM si
FROZEN Previews Oct 24
2018, 10:58:35 AM
I think some of you may have to be careful what you wish for.
If the broadway show schedule actually decreases from 8 shows a week to less, then get prepared for ticket prices to go up. Again. Producers agree to put on shows based on a business case that tells them the show has the potential to make $xxxx based on tickets sold at a certain price for each performance, multiplied by how many performances there are in a certain amount of time.
WhizzerMarvin said: "There was no dancing at all. There’s one Fosse-themed number called “Zazz” and then most of the Mean Girls numbers are hip hop influenced."
There was no dancing? There was no tap? I’m shocked! Casey Nicholaw didn’t learn his lesson from tuck everlasting or even mean girls where adding a tap number during previews elevated the whole show?
I know it’s literally the first preview and there’s time, I&r
Miles2Go2 said: "When I caught the non-equity tour of Rent earlier this year, they had quite a bit of merchandise. Probably not as much as you’d see with most touring equity productions, but more than I was expecting. I don’t know if that’s the norm, however."
Good to know, thanks! Really hoping to find the "Make an Omelette" Something Rotten Apron on sale haha.
Thanks to both of you! That's great to know about Work Light and the talent etc.
Would you know whether or not the non-equity tour would still use the same broadway direction and choreography like an equity broadway national tour? That's a big reason why I want to see something rotten again and again.
Does anyone here know what types of changes are made to a national tour when it starts out as Equity and eventually changes to Non-Equity? I'm asking because that is what happened to the current tour of Something Rotten and I was thinking of catching it when it comes to Detroit, MI later this month.
I saw Something Rotten on Broadway with the OBC and loved it, so I made sure to see it when it went on tour in MI earlier this year. The tour started as Equity and was the cast with Rob
But you know what? By that time the OBC cast had made the producers rich men, and they had devoted a big chunk of their lives to the show. And they didn't run to Mr. Riedel blabbing all the
I agree that the use of toys was underwhelming for the first snowman, but understand if her powers weren't as strong yet.
However, the Disney easter egg made it worth it:
Seriously, if you're a big Disney fan - don't read this spoiler until you've seen the show. You'll appreciate the reveal once you see them put together Olaf in the bedroom.
All of these hypothetical scenario threads have gotten me thinking about how timing is so crucial of a show's life. Since The Band's Visit was the tony committee's saving grace of the season, what do you all think would have happened if TBV did not open this season, and there were only the other 5 new musicals for the season: Mean Girls, Frozen, Spongebob, Summer, and Margaritaville? It could have easily happened, the whole creative track of the show could have been shifted one ye
Solipsist234 said: "Umm, what world are you living in where SpongeBob has a big following and the shows got collectively better reviews this season? Mean Girls got ravaged by the critics, dude. Same with Frozen! Also Summer and Margaritaville."
Ok, that is true critics wise. They made it clear this year that they only loved 1 new show. That's still 1 more than they loved in 2010. I guess my point is, 2018 had a clear best musical frontrunner and critics favorite
This is a question of just the new musicals of each season, but I was thinking back on how much flack the musical of this past season got and compared it to the last worst best musical (in my opinion), Memphis.
Thinking back to 2010, there was no musical that got the acclaim that The Band's Visit got this year.
Numbers wise, both seasons had the same amount of new musicals open, 6. In 2010 it was Memphis, American Idiot, Fela!, Million Dollar Quartet, Addams Family and Come
Does anyone know if CBS or anyone will be streaming the creative arts / pre-primetime awards that they give out starting at 7pm online anywhere? I remember they used to show this on possibly tonyawards.com and wanted to check if we can find it anywhere this year.
I know they change from year to year for some awards which ones will be at that ceremony and which are saved for prime time (like book and score and director for some reason). Hopefully there's a way we can see them all so
Oak2 is right here and GeorgeandDot is absolutely wrong. Oak2 explained concisely that the fans voting for the awards poll can only vote based off of what they know. It's an AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD, of course it's going to be a popularity contest - no need to overreact and troll those who voted doing exactly what the poll was intended to do. People are going to groan about the outcomes of the actual Tony Awards anyway, why should these awards be different than any other. For Oak2 t
I would say that Bullets Over Broadway's use of tap from Susan Stroman would fit into the "use of tap organically - not a gimmick or meta moment of musical theatre" in Cheech's song, T'aint Nobody's Business If I Do as well.
The tap is used to move the story of the scene along and showcase the characterization of Cheech and the other gangsters. They're showing their hostility and disregard for the law through the lyrics of the song
